Skinny VS Curvy

Christina Aguilera Looks Slimmer
Aishwarya Rai – Shining in Cannes
Stage Outfits at Billboard Awards: Nicki Minaj and Jennifer Lopez
Megan Fox in Jeans on Set
Taylor Swift’s Leggy Blue Look
Plus-Size Model Jennie Runk: “There’s no need to glamorise one body type and slam another”

Posted: 20 May 2013 03:25 PM PDT

Christina Aguilera Looks Slimmer | then and now christina aguilera

After being the target of a lot of criticism regarding her weight gain last year, Christina Aguilera is back to her slimmer days again. Here she is at the Billboard Awards this weekend, rocking the stage in a little black dress that shows off her slimmer figure.

What do you think of her transformation?

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Aishwarya Rai – Shining in Cannes

Posted: 20 May 2013 02:55 PM PDT

Aishwarya Rai Shining in Cannes | aishwarya rai

39 year-old Aishwarya Rai is one of the stars that attend the Cannes Film Festival each year – so here she is this week in two different glamorous dresses, looking beautiful on the red carpet.

Aishwarya Rai Shining in Cannes | aishwarya rai

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Stage Outfits at Billboard Awards: Nicki Minaj and Jennifer Lopez

Posted: 20 May 2013 12:19 PM PDT

Stage Outfits at Billboard Awards: Nicki Minaj and Jennifer Lopez | nicki minaj jennifer lopez

Left: 43 year-old Jennifer Lopez, showing the crowd that she’s still got it in a red leotard that showed off her famous round hips.

Right: 30 year-old Nicki Minaj, who showed off her proudest assets in an ultra tight black outfit on stage last night.

See them better on the next page – also included: see how these curvy divas looked before the show!

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Megan Fox in Jeans on Set

Posted: 20 May 2013 11:50 AM PDT

Megan Fox in Jeans on Set | megan fox

27 year-old Megan Fox looked hot and slim as always in dark jeans on set of her new movie in New York City this week.

Megan Fox in Jeans on Set | megan fox

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Taylor Swift’s Leggy Blue Look

Posted: 20 May 2013 08:54 AM PDT

Taylor Swifts Leggy Blue Look | taylor swift

Taylor Swift showed up at last night's Billboard Music Awards and she went matchy matchy with the blue carpet, opting for a shiny dress that showed off her long and slim legs.

How do you all like the look?

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Plus-Size Model Jennie Runk: “There’s no need to glamorise one body type and slam another”

Posted: 20 May 2013 08:47 AM PDT

At request, here’s plus-size beauty Jennie Runk, a size 14 beauty who models (in bikinis) for H&M – Jennie, who is 5’10” and measures 36D-31-44, recently wrote an essay that has been published on the BBC site where she shares her views on body image and promotes body acceptance and diversity. Unlike other celebrities, who seem to think that beauty only comes in one type of package, Jennie thinks that the hatred towards any body type needs to stop:

I had no idea that my H&M beachwear campaign would receive so much publicity. I'm the quiet type who reads books, plays video games, and might be a little too obsessed with her cat.

So, suddenly having a large amount of publicity was an awkward surprise at first. I found it strange that people made such a fuss about how my body looks in a bikini, since I don't usually give it much thought.

When my Facebook fan page gained about 2,000 new likes in 24 hours, I decided to use the attention as an opportunity to make the world a little nicer by promoting confidence. I've since been receiving lots of messages from fans, expressing gratitude.

Some even told me that my confidence has inspired them to try on a bikini for the first time in years. This is exactly the kind of thing I've always wanted to accomplish, showing women that it's OK to be confident even if you're not the popular notion of "perfect."

This message is especially important for teenage girls. Being a teenage girl is incredibly difficult. They need all the help and support they can get.

When our bodies change and we all start to look totally different, we simultaneously begin feeling pressured to look exactly the same. This is an impossible goal to achieve and I wish I had known that when I was 13. At 5ft 9in and a US size eight (usually either a UK 10 or 12), I envied the girls whose boyfriends could pick them up and carry them on their shoulders.

Gym class was a nightmare. While the thin girls were wearing shorts, I was wearing sweat pants because my thighs were the size of their waists, and those pants were embarrassingly short because I was taller than the average adult, but still shopped at (pre-teen clothing store) Limited Too.

I also had thick, curly hair that only drew more attention to me, hiding behind my braces and beige, wire-rimmed glasses. On top of all this I've always been rather clumsy, so to say that my adolescence was awkward is an understatement.

Having finally survived it, I feel compelled to show girls who are going through the same thing that it's acceptable to be different. You will grow out of this awkwardness fabulously. Just focus on being the best possible version of yourself and quit worrying about your thighs, there's nothing wrong with them.

After all, I never thought of myself as model material but then I was discovered at a Petsmart, while volunteering in my too-short sweat pants no less.

I was given the option to lose weight and try to maintain a size four (a UK six or eight), or to gain a little – maintain a size 10 (a UK 12 or 14) – and start a career as a plus-size model. I knew my body was never meant to be a size four, so I went with plus.

People assume "plus" equates to fat, which in turn equates to ugly. This is completely absurd because many women who are considered plus-sized are actually in line with the American national average, or a US size 12/14 (somewhere between a UK size 14-18).

I can't argue that some styles look better on one size than another.

While the idea of separating women into size categories seems stigmatising, clothing companies do this in order to offer their customers exactly what they're looking for, making it easier for people of all sizes to find clothes that fit their bodies as well as their own unique stylistic expression.

The only problem is the negative connotations that remain stubbornly attached to the term "plus-size". There shouldn't be anything negative about being the same size as the average American woman, or even being a little bigger. Some women are perfectly healthy at a size 16 (a UK 18 or 20).

There are also negative connotations associated with thinness. Just as bigger women get called fat or chunky, thin women get called gangly or bony.

There's no need to glamorise one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being different sizes. It doesn't help anyone and it's getting old.